New academy offers boot camp for would-be Democratic campaign staffers

Jessie Lopez recently received the Digital Organizing certificate through the a National Democratic Training Committee program for aspiring political staffers. She was photographed in a park in Santa Ana, CA on Monday, July 1, 2019. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Political activism wasn’t on Jessie Lopez’s mind when she left a solid, 10-year job as a records technician at a prominent Costa Mesa law firm to study sociology at Cal State Long Beach.
But shortly a